Aid cash pulled over Zanzibar, cybercrime

Zanzibar’s controversial election re-run and the use of the cybercrimes act prompted the US government to suspend it’s financial partnership with Tanzania. Photo: Daniel Hayduk

Zanzibar’s election re-run and the implementation of the cybercrimes act has cost Tanzania $472 million USD (1 trillion TSH) in financial aid from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC.)

“Tanzania moved forward with a new election in Zanzibar that was neither inclusive nor representative… despite repeated concerns of the US Government and the international community,” says a statement issued by the MCC.